Brosh explored what makes boutique properties different as well as what makes them so attractive to major hospitality brands. “I would suggest that boutique hotels, as they’re now known as an asset class, have become spiritually bankrupt,” Brosh told the crowd at the Forum. “They’re being designed by a committee to create an economically viable solution to a building.”

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